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Biden administration proposes sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips

Government & Policy /

With a week left in office, President Joe Biden introduced a new set of guidelines and restrictions for exporting U.S.-made AI chips. On Monday the administration announced its Interim Final Rule on AI diffusion. This ruling is meant to “provide clarity to allied and partner nations about how they can benefit from AI” and streamline […]

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Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments

AI /

No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability, and cash reserves have skyrocketed since the introduction of ChatGPT a little over two years ago — and the many competitive generative AI services that have launched since. And its stock price soared more than eightfold.  During that period, the

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$5B livestream shopping apps, Nvidia reveals, and the weirdest tech at CES

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“We put AI in this thing. Does it work? We’ll see.” That seemed to be the theme for some companies attending CES 2025, but looking beyond the experimental hype, there were also some significant (we think) developments and cool new products. Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Margaux MacColl, Anthony Ha, and Max

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Hippocratic AI raises $141M for creating patient-facing AI agents

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Hippocratic AI, a startup building AI solutions that can handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks, secured a massive $141 million Series B at a valuation of $1.64 billion led by Kleiner Perkins, the company announced Thursday. The funding comes nine months after Hippocratic AI raised a $53 million round from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz and five

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Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore’s Law

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the performance of his company’s AI chips is advancing faster than historical rates set by Moore’s Law, the rubric that drove computing progress for decades. “Our systems are progressing way faster than Moore’s Law,” said Huang in an interview with TechCrunch on Tuesday, the morning after he delivered a keynote

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At CES 2025, Uber teams up with Nvidia to scale autonomous driving faster

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Uber will use Nvidia’s new generative world model simulation tool, Cosmos, and cloud-based AI supercomputing platform, DGX Cloud, to support the development of autonomous vehicle technology, the companies announced at CES 2025. Cosmos is being marketed to robotics and autonomy companies as a tool that generates physics-based videos from a variety of inputs, including 9,000

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Nvidia reveals Project Digits to power personal AI supercomputers at CES 2025

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Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang had an extensive CES 2025 address, detailing everything from Nvidia’s next set of GPUs, its plans for embracing the next era of robotics and automotive innovation, and the launch of its own AI world models. And before he ended his keynote, Huang had one more reveal in store: Project

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